{"id":3037,"date":"2008-10-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2008-10-27T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T19:03:47","slug":"obama-redistribution-of-wealth-is-economic-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/obama-redistribution-of-wealth-is-economic-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Redistribution of Wealth is Economic Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.org\/outofcontrol\/archives\/2008\/10\/obama_economic.html\">Reason<\/a> | Oct. 27, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama during a radio interview in 2001 said some rather troubling things. He posited that the civil rights movement, while successfully establishing social rights for all, did not pursue \u201ceconomic justice\u201d and \u201credistributive change.&#8221; While said in the context of talking about the segregation movement, he was explicit in noting that the civil rights movement had not gone far enough in terms of providing equal rights for all. In his view racial integration was the first step towards equality in terms of providing racial equality, but true equality will only come with the economic equality of all, beyond the race issue.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve already heard Obama tell Joe the Plumber that its better for everyone when you spread the wealth around, so this is not a radical bombshell, but it does reinforce an important point: when Obama becomes President, capitalists must be vigilant in the fight against socialist trends.  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Obama was specifically quoted as saying it was a \u201ctragedy\u201d that \u201cthe Supreme court didn\u2019t pursue redistribution of wealth\u201d during the time of the civil rights movement. Beyond the obvious economic theory posited there, it also shows this former law professor\u2019s bias about progressive judicial activism instead of constitutional activism. <\/p>\n<p>He further established his position on strict constructionism or originalism (the conservative legal philosophy that limits and restricts judicial interpretation) versus living constitution theory (the progressive legal philosophy viewing the constitution as an evolving document pegged to societal trends) when he said this: <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The Warren Court] didn\u2019t break free from the essential constraints put in by the founding fathers in the Constitution\u2026I\u2019m not optimistic about redistributive change through the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.org\/outofcontrol\/archives\/2008\/10\/obama_economic.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason | Oct. 27, 2008 Barack Obama during a radio interview in 2001 said some rather troubling things. He posited that the civil rights movement, while successfully establishing social rights for all, did not pursue \u201ceconomic justice\u201d and \u201credistributive change.&#8221; While said in the context of talking about the segregation movement, he was explicit in &#8230; <a title=\"Obama: Redistribution of Wealth is Economic Justice\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/obama-redistribution-of-wealth-is-economic-justice\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Obama: Redistribution of Wealth is Economic Justice\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,72,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-leftism","category-totalitarian-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}